MIF Maritime Industries Forum

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Introduction

• Baby of the Bunch
• Dirty Labour/Industrial Conflicts
• Professional, Proactive and Productive
• Involvement Who and Why?
• Results led?

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Working Group on Recruitment, Training and
Retention in the Maritime Industries
Chairman Mr Mike Barnett (IAM(EU)) Participant
s CESA, ECSA, ETF, EMF, IAMI(EU), IIMS(EG),
WEMT
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• WORK PROGRAMME

A. Initial Areas of Consideration

• Assessment of skill needs shipping,
  shipbuilding, ports, shore infrastructure and
  services
• Inter-relationship of qualifications and
  competencies within the industry
• Stock take of key workers and recruitment
  services
• Industry profile, attractiveness to young
  persons, rewards and remuneration compared to
  other industries
• The boundaries and extent of Maritime
  Employment Sector including the differing
  sub-sectors within the Sector
• The skill requirements of the sub-sectors
• The commonality and transferability of the
  skills between sub-sectors
• The nature of training, ie in the workplace or
  non workplace environment eg college
• The quality and availability of training
  including the cost of and financial support
  obtainable

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B. Actions

• 1. Recruitment and Training considerations have
  been restricted on advice received from the EC
  during the last MIF Plenary, pending the long
  awaited EC communication on recruitment,
  training and employment (now released).
•  2. The main participants of initial
  considerations have been the ETF and ECSA. This
  will be broadened and will add to the initial
  areas identified above.
•  3. In shipping considerable work has already
  been done.
•  4. Identify the scope of the Maritime Sector and
  its sub-sectors.
•  5. Establish the skill requirements and identify
  any shortages.
•  6. Confirm the training and qualifications
  required for each sub-sector.
•  7. Establish the availability of training and
  the total costs to the parties involved, namely,
  government, employer and employee.

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Recruitment Training

•  Is there a problem?
•  Who trains and who poaches?
•  Industry profile what is it?
•   Does it matter?
•  Is there still transferability? Is it wanted?
•  Market Forces supply and demand strategic
  assessment

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Working Group on HR Aspects of Safety
Chairman Mr Alfons Guinier (ECSA)
Participants ECSA, ETF, EMEC, EurACS,
IAMI(EU), IIMS(EG), WEMT
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A. Initial Areas of Consideration

• The effect of national and international
  regulatory regimes on levels of responsibility
  and safety
• The policing of existing regulatory
  requirements by the International Labour
  Organisation and the International Maritime
  Agency
• The quality of inspection and the enforcement
  of regulatory requirements by individual
  countries
• The effect of commercial pressures on operating
  regimes

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B. Actions

• 1. Identify the inadequacies in the regulatory
  regimes as they affect those in the industry and
  how it operates.
• 2. Press for the setting up of a European
  Maritime Safety Agency to ensure consistency and
  uniformity with respect to enforcement of all
  matters affecting safety and the environment in
  European waters.
• 3. Press for additional human resources for
  regulatory authorities in order to adequately
  police harbours, coastal zones and shipping.
• 4. Establish the adverse effects on the
  environment and of shipping operations as a
  consequence of commercial pressures and
  substandard operations

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HR Aspects of Safety

• Does hardware beat software every time?
• Social Conditions an answer to improved
  safety?
• Responsibility and Authority who has them?
• Enforcement is it adequate and effective?

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Working Group on Impact on Maritime Employment of
EU Enlargement
Chairman Mr Eduardo Chagas (ETF)
Participants ECSA, ETC, EMF, IIMS(EG)
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• WORK PROGRAMME

A. Initial Areas of Consideration

• Information on negotiations at EU level and
  national positions shipping, shipbuilding,
  ports, maritime infrastructures
• Consequences of mobility of labour on
• Technical standards and competences
• Skills resources shortages and surpluses
  across boundaries
• Social conditions in host countries
• Social Dumping potential for, and impact of

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B. Actions

• 1. The main area of active consideration is in
  shipping. The EU Sectoral Dialogue Committee
  received an ETF position paper produced following
  extensive consultation with seafarer unions in
  Central and Eastern Europe and the EU. A minute
  of the discussion is attached (October 2000)
  together with the position paper. The Sectoral
  Dialogue Committee has established a Working
  Group to further consideration on the subject as
  it relates to shipping.
•  2. The EC has produced an update of the progress
  on Enlargement (attached), which provides
  limited information of specific value to the WGs
  considerations. On shipping the need for
  information and active input relates to such
  countries as Cyprus, which have large Flag of
  Convenience fleets with questionable flagging
  and employment practices.
•  3. Greater input and participation of all
  players in all maritime sectors is encouraged.

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HUMAN RESOURCES

• Impact of EU Enlargement  
• The answer to a skills shortage? 
• Mobility of labour without social equality?
• Are standards equal?
• Is there a need for protection?
• - in the Ferry Sector?
• - In Short Sea Shipping?
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• Proposed Intra EU Manning Directive retention
  of skills!

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